Gaming News That is Awesome and Radical
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Get Marvel vs. Capcom 2’s Mix Tape On Vinyl
Capcom will be releasing a mix tape alongside their Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 release, featuring a number of well known hip-hop artists. That’s pretty awesome, but what’s even more awesome is you can grab a limited edition full-size vinyl of the album. At Comic-Con. Which is on the wrong coast for me.
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Microsoft’s Next Dashboard Update Coming August 11
Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 dashboard will be released on August 11th and feature a number of improvements and new features, including: A new “Xbox Live Games On Demand” service, allowing users to download whole Xbox 360 games. The service will launch with 30 games, including Assassin’s Creed, BioShock, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Mass…
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Capcom Announces Ship Date for Resident Evil 5 PC
Resident Evil 5 will be out for PC on September 15th and will support stereoscopic 3D, which sounds pretty high tech. Full press release below. Capcom will also be showing the game at Comicon 2009.
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is described as a “side-scroller that would combine old school arcade style game play with feature film quality design and animation.” It kind of looks like a mix between Solar Jetman, Patapon, a little Metroid, and some black metal (that’s Dimmu Borgir playing). Whatever it is, the graphics look pretty fucking…
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Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Coming to PSN on August 13
Yep, it’s coming to the Playstation Network on August 13th for $15. Attention Brawlers, Get ready to dust off the Adamantium claws and dig through the sock drawer for Ryu’s headband. Today we’re announcing that Marvel vs. Capcom 2 will be available via PlayStation Network on Thursday, August 13 for $15.
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Club Nintendo Rewards Available Now
Nintendo has announced their rewards for Club Nintendo gold and platinum members. Basically, certain Nintendo games and systems can be registered at the site, and you gain coins each time you register something. You can also gain additional coins by filling out surveys about those games/systems. Once you’ve amassed enough coins you gain gold or…
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A Boy And His Blob Getting a Wii Remake
I didn’t realize there was an A Boy And His Blob remake coming to the Wii (announced March 4), a game we previously did a Awesome Radical Retro Prospective for. The graphics look really nice, and I don’t have to remember what the different colored beans do anymore.
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Modern Warfare 2’s Prestige Edition
Tired of just getting art books with your collector’s edition games? Well, it seems Infinity Ward has come to the rescue, giving players night vision goggles with every “Prestige Edition” copy of the game. And it will only set you back about $149 which actually, kind of doesn’t seem that bad for the goggles and…
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Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta DLC Detailed
I just finished playing through Fallout 3’s Broken Steel (which was overall pretty amazing, though I died a ton during the last section of the mission) and will be starting Point Lookout soon, so having more DLC on the horizon is always a good thing. Description: Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off…
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More Halo Wars DLC Coming July 21st
Halo Wars latest downloadable content, “Historic Battles”, will be available July 21 for 800 Microsoft points and offers 4 new multiplayer maps: • Barrens (1v1 Map): Difficult terrain channels units into killing zones. The side that controls the Forerunner artifacts will have the advantage.
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The King of Fighters XII Coming July 28
Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of The King of Fighters XII will be out July 28th. I really think they did an amazing job with the graphics, I like this style more then Street Fighter IV’s. More screenshots below…
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Dragon Quest IX’s Japanese Launch
I’ve always been curious what exactly goes on during a Dragon Quest launch in Japan. The game is kind of a big deal there. So big, in fact, that they only release them on Saturdays (instead of their normal Thursday launches), supposedly because everyone would skip school/work/etc. to play the game (I’m not sure if…
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